The bright tones of the hard maple make this board a lively addition to any kitchen, while the addition of the walnut gives the whole piece a nice eye catching accent. Given it’s thickness, it makes for a nice sturdy and elegant surface for chopping. As with any of our boards, they can also serve as an attractive surface for your charcuterie displays when entertaining guests. Each board comes with rubber feet to hold the block secure to your kitchen counter while cutting, and the finger grooves on the bottom sides make it very easy to pick up.
I know what you’re probably thinking, and yes, that’s a lot of cheese on that board for only having like 5 slices of baguette bread. I was majorly concerned with the bread to cheese ratio as well when my sister in law made up this cocktail party display. I was worried that someone was going to have to take that whole brie wedge to the face like it was a slice of pizza. Also, life lesson, raw rosemary really doesn’t taste good and should be left on the board for decoration. Truth be told, my wife was supposed to act as a hand model for this product photo shoot and do something more standard like cut a tomato or something. But as she had a last minute conflict, the photographer thought it would be a bad idea to try and substitute my beat-up, woodshop man-hands for my wife's freshly manicured ones. So along comes the pivot to a charcuterie thing. …I suppose at least we now know that these butcher blocks dress up real nice as charcuterie boards…thanks to my sister in law’s meat n’ cheese arrangement skills…
Enough rambling, let's talk about this butcher block. See the 'about' section below.
This block design is made out of solid hardwood (duh) and consists of Walnut, Cherry, and Hard Maple. Like all of our products, I hand select the rough stock wood from my local family-owned lumber yard here in Nashville, and cut and plane the rough wood myself to be used in the work you see here.
All of the woods in this block are suitable for butcher blocks, though hard maple (the center portion, and most surface area for cutting) is the industry standard for cutting boards and butcher blocks, and has been for years. Maple is hard enough to withstand the abuse of being a cutting board, but not so hard that it will damage or dull down your expensive knives. Victory! Victory!
All blocks are finished with a food-safe finish.
Finger grooves and rubber feet come standard on all butcher blocks.
Now go on a get one, you know you want it!
DIMENSIONS: 12"W x 18"L x approx 1.75" thick
